As usual, I've got nothing to do with the packaging of this game, I just test them, and let everyone knows it works and is available for Puppy. Besides, it would be pointless making it into a pet when it work just fine as it is. Enjoy!

TORCS, The Open Racing Car Simulator is a highly portable multi platform car racing simulation. It is used as ordinary car racing game, as AI racing game and as research platform. It runs on Linux (x86, AMD64 and PPC), FreeBSD, MacOSX and Windows.

TORCS features more than 50 different cars, more than 20 tracks, and 50 opponents to race against. Your can steer with a joystick or steering wheel, if the device is supported by your platform. It is also possible to drive with the mouse or the keyboard. Graphic features lighting, smoke, skidmarks and glowing brake disks. The simulation features a simple damage model, collisions, tire and wheel properties (springs, dampers, stiffness, ...), aerodynamics (ground effect, spoilers, ...) and much more. The gameplay allows different types of races from the simple practice session up to the championship. Enjoy racing against your friends in the split screen mode with up to four human players.

You may need to change the permissions of the download. Other than that, it should be a straight forward click and install. Just follow the on screen install

@ iamhealed
Sorry -- about 1 year later someone replies to your post . I only got mine going earlier this year so I hope I can help you out.

I got this binary (torcs-1.3.0-linux-glibc-2.3-pIII.bz2.run) from the torcs website and ran it with a chunky pupsave with lots of free space just to be safe. Be sure to do it in a terminal so you can see what is going on
I made a symbolic link to the file, called it torcs.run and just did this from a terminal in the folder

Code:

./torcs.run

It unpacked it and seemed to set it up all ok.

Newer versions of torcs may not work from a binary due to the glibc in lucid being too "old" (I think its fine). Otherwise upgrade to wary or racy or saluki.
I forget how I got it all to go - but I remember somehow keeping it outside of my pupsave in its own folder. It is kind of a portable app.
Just running torcs from there works.

Code:

./torcs

Hint-- don't forget the dot and the forward slash if you are running it outside of the normal system binary folders like /bin /usr/bin etc.

I did need to add a few dependencies. These ones helped me a lot.
There may be some other common ones needed like SDL or OpenGL or libpng.
Run Torcs from a terminal and it should give you some feedback as to what it is missing.

For those who can use it I now have Torcs 1.3.4 for Fatdog 64 bit
Unfortunately I could not get any binaries from the torcs website to work for fatdog. I built from source -first the dependencies then plib 1.8.5 using this configure command

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